BAKU– The 19-year-old Divya Deshmukh stunned the chess world by winning the FIDE Women’s World Cup 2025, becoming the first Indian woman to claim the prestigious title. In the all-Indian final, Divya ...

Indonesian rescuers have recovered the bodies of at least 17 people,--- Who were swept away in flash floods or buried under tons of mud and rocks,--- That hit hilly villages on the country’s main ...

Magnus Carlsen, the world's top chess player, has quit the World Rapid Chess Championship being held in New York after refusing to change out of jeans to abide by a dress code. The Norwegian chess ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Magnus Carlsen has a vision to transform the ancient game of chess. The grandmaster, a contender to be the ...

Russia's chess team is to remain banned from international competitions, officials have ruled. In a dramatic move, an International Chess Federation (Fide) general assembly meeting in Budapest voted ...

It’s no queen’s gambit. A Russian chess player is under investigation after allegedly being caught on camera spraying her opponent’s board with what authorities said was a substance containing mercury ...

Bodhana Sivanandan, a fourth-grader, has become one of England’s best players just a few years after discovering chess during pandemic lockdown. By Isabella Kwai Since learning chess during a pandemic ...

A child prodigy has set a new record in the chess world by besting a grandmaster nearly 30 years older than him on Sunday. At just 8-years-old, Singaporean chess prodigy Ashwath Kaushik became the ...

Java based Chess Board Scanner, which converts 2D chess board image into a machine readable format a.k.a. Forsyth–Edwards Notation (FEN). It uses OpenCV and Deeplearning4j frameworks, complemented ...